CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Hornets celebrated too soon and then weren’t sure if they’d be celebrating at all. Meanwhile, team owner Michael Jordan chewed out and smacked one of his own players.

Jeremy Lamb’s first NBA buzzer-beater was no ordinary game-winning shot.

Lamb knocked down a 22-foot jumper from the right wing with 0.3 seconds left, and then had to wait and see if it counted after the Hornets were assessed a technical foul for having too many players on the floor. The basket was upheld, and the Hornets escaped with a 108-107 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night after trailing by 10 late in the fourth quarter.

As Lamb thrust out his chest and yelled and the crowd erupted with screams, officials quickly blew the whistle and gathered at the scorer’s table to check the replay monitor. Replays showed Malik Monk and later Bismack Biyombo had come off the bench and run several yards onto the floor in anticipation of Lamb making the shot at the other end.

“I thought they were going to call like three techs, get three free throws — something like that,” Lamb said.

Jordan was angry. As Monk, a second-year player from Kentucky, retreated to the bench, he got chewed out by the six-time NBA champion, who was sitting at the end of the bench. Jordan playfully slapped at the back of Monk’s head — twice. Monk smiled with a touch of embarrassment.

The Pistons, trailing by two at the time, were only given one technical foul shot — which they made. Detroit’s ensuing long inbounds pass was intercepted as time expired.

“My heart stopped for a second there,” said Hornets coach James Borrego, who said he had never seen that call made in professional basketball.

The Associated Press requested clarification on the call after the game, but the game officials had already left the arena and were unavailable for comment.

The Pistons weren’t upset over the ruling.

Detroit guard Langston Galloway was more irritated that the Pistons went almost six minutes without a field goal late in the fourth quarter, surrendered a 10-point lead and allowed Lamb to make the jumper on a simple drive-and-kick from Kemba Walker.

“I can’t get into the he-said, she-said,” Galloway said. “We just have to take away that basket and not allow him to get a good shot like that.”